Do prior knowledge, personality and visual perceptual ability predict student performance in microscopic pathology?



: Helle L, Nivala M, Kronqvist P, Ericsson KA, Lehtinen E

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

: 2010

: Medical Education

: MEDICAL EDUCATION

: MED EDUC

: 6

: 44

: 6

: 621

: 629

: 9

: 0308-0110

: 1365-2923

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2923.2010.03625.x


Visual spatial ability may be related to performance in the initial phase of training in microscopic pathology. However, from a practical point of view, medical students are able to learn basic microscopic pathology using worked-out examples, independently of measures of personality or visual perceptual ability. This finding should reassure students about their abilities to improve with training independently of their scores on tests on basic abilities and personality.



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